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The Week.
tiA'een the States and Spain . The King of Portugal has accepted the resignation of the ministry . The Duke of Terceira is charged with the formation of a new cabinet . The folioAving are mentioned as the members of the new ministry : — President of the Council and Minister of AA . tr , the Duke of Terceira ; Minister of Interior , Pontes ; Minister of Justice , Ferns ; Minister of Finances , Ribeiro ; Mi - nistev of Public AVorks , Serpa ; Minister of Marine , Ferreira . The contract with Sir Samuel Peto is said to have been abandoned There is a great movement of
troops in Austria , and some Italian regiments are being removed from Italy to the German provinces of the empire . There is no reason to suppose that disaffection prevails among the men , but the Austrian government is not inclined to expose them to temptation . On the Sth iust . Count Gyulai went with a very numerous suite of officers from Milan to inspect the new works at Pavia . Tho Austrian troops concentrated in the neighbourhood of Semlin , in order to observe Servia , are about to leave their present position . The forceconsisting of nearly 12000 menis
, , , ordered to inarch towards Trieste ; and the belief is that it will ultimately be sent to Verona , where the reserves of the army of Italy will be assembled . Large bodies of troops have recently come to Vienna from tho northern ancl eastern provinces of the empire , and there is reason to believe that another army of 50 , 000 men will in a few days be on its way to Italy . Advices from Constantinople state , that in the Principalities preparations are being made to offer resistance in case Prince Couza ' s election should be cancelled . The Governor of Bosnia writes
that he has discovered an extensive conspiracy to bring about a iieiv insurrection , which was on the point of breaking out , and which extended to Montenegro . The governor demands reinforcements . The army of observation on the Danube is in a disorganized condition , and desertions , especially among the Reclifs , are extremely numerous . The state of the finances is unaltered . The last accounts received from Constantinople announce that the Ottoman government had sent a military commission into Armenia , under the direction of Selim Pacha , a general of engineers , torcport on the expediency of rebuilding the forti fications of Kars aud Erzeroum .
It is asserted that the Russian ambassador at Berlin , has communicated to the Prussian minister a despatch from Prince Gortschakoff , in which the latter pronounces himself in a pacific sense , and promises to support Prussia and England in their endeavours to procure a peaceful solution of the pending difficulties . The Russian cabinet admits tho necessity of the maintenance of treaties , but advises a revision of . the treaties of Austria with the small Italian States . A telegram bearing date St . Petersburg !! , Thursday , gives intelligence from the Caucasus . On the lDth February General Jcffdokimoft' Avith his coips d'armec laid siege to Sehamyi ' s
capital . The place is fortified , and the besieged appear determined to make a stubborn resistance . A letter from Turin says that matters must be IIOAV pretty ripe for an outbreak , as M . Cavour has intimated to the French minister at Turin his intention to serve a formal summons ( une mise en demeure ) on the French government for aid and assistance , as he consider the measures recently adopted by Austria as equivalent to a declaration of war . M . do Latour d'Auvergne begged himbefore having recourse to this extreme step , to wait until he could
communi-, cate with his government . " The king immediately assembled his council , which general Garibaldi attended , and after it was over , M . de Cavour again SIIAV the French minister ; and it is declared that A ictor Emmanuel has formally applied to the French emperor for his intervention . The Cov . rrier des Alpcs , a Savoyard journal , draws a frightful picture of the state to which the policy of Count Cavour is alleged to have brought Savoy . The official Piedmonteso Gazette contradicts the suggestions of the Presse of Paris of the 15 th , and states that the policy of the
Sardinan government has been neither provocative nor revolutionary , but always natioual andliberal . The King of Naples has undergone an operation on tbejthigh , but the fever still continues . The state of the king ' s health becomes alarming ; for a few clays be improved , but on A \ ednesday lie became worse . To lessen the pain he has recource to opiates . In the meantime everything stands still . The hereditary prince takes no part in affairs . The police exercise the utmost rigour towards all ivho speak of the king ' s illness . A gentleman in the cafe' under the Palazzo Angri , in the Toledo , ventured to express his regret at the silence of tho official journals on the subject . On his way out he was arrested , On the 8 th
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
tiA'een the States and Spain . The King of Portugal has accepted the resignation of the ministry . The Duke of Terceira is charged with the formation of a new cabinet . The folioAving are mentioned as the members of the new ministry : — President of the Council and Minister of AA . tr , the Duke of Terceira ; Minister of Interior , Pontes ; Minister of Justice , Ferns ; Minister of Finances , Ribeiro ; Mi - nistev of Public AVorks , Serpa ; Minister of Marine , Ferreira . The contract with Sir Samuel Peto is said to have been abandoned There is a great movement of
troops in Austria , and some Italian regiments are being removed from Italy to the German provinces of the empire . There is no reason to suppose that disaffection prevails among the men , but the Austrian government is not inclined to expose them to temptation . On the Sth iust . Count Gyulai went with a very numerous suite of officers from Milan to inspect the new works at Pavia . Tho Austrian troops concentrated in the neighbourhood of Semlin , in order to observe Servia , are about to leave their present position . The forceconsisting of nearly 12000 menis
, , , ordered to inarch towards Trieste ; and the belief is that it will ultimately be sent to Verona , where the reserves of the army of Italy will be assembled . Large bodies of troops have recently come to Vienna from tho northern ancl eastern provinces of the empire , and there is reason to believe that another army of 50 , 000 men will in a few days be on its way to Italy . Advices from Constantinople state , that in the Principalities preparations are being made to offer resistance in case Prince Couza ' s election should be cancelled . The Governor of Bosnia writes
that he has discovered an extensive conspiracy to bring about a iieiv insurrection , which was on the point of breaking out , and which extended to Montenegro . The governor demands reinforcements . The army of observation on the Danube is in a disorganized condition , and desertions , especially among the Reclifs , are extremely numerous . The state of the finances is unaltered . The last accounts received from Constantinople announce that the Ottoman government had sent a military commission into Armenia , under the direction of Selim Pacha , a general of engineers , torcport on the expediency of rebuilding the forti fications of Kars aud Erzeroum .
It is asserted that the Russian ambassador at Berlin , has communicated to the Prussian minister a despatch from Prince Gortschakoff , in which the latter pronounces himself in a pacific sense , and promises to support Prussia and England in their endeavours to procure a peaceful solution of the pending difficulties . The Russian cabinet admits tho necessity of the maintenance of treaties , but advises a revision of . the treaties of Austria with the small Italian States . A telegram bearing date St . Petersburg !! , Thursday , gives intelligence from the Caucasus . On the lDth February General Jcffdokimoft' Avith his coips d'armec laid siege to Sehamyi ' s
capital . The place is fortified , and the besieged appear determined to make a stubborn resistance . A letter from Turin says that matters must be IIOAV pretty ripe for an outbreak , as M . Cavour has intimated to the French minister at Turin his intention to serve a formal summons ( une mise en demeure ) on the French government for aid and assistance , as he consider the measures recently adopted by Austria as equivalent to a declaration of war . M . do Latour d'Auvergne begged himbefore having recourse to this extreme step , to wait until he could
communi-, cate with his government . " The king immediately assembled his council , which general Garibaldi attended , and after it was over , M . de Cavour again SIIAV the French minister ; and it is declared that A ictor Emmanuel has formally applied to the French emperor for his intervention . The Cov . rrier des Alpcs , a Savoyard journal , draws a frightful picture of the state to which the policy of Count Cavour is alleged to have brought Savoy . The official Piedmonteso Gazette contradicts the suggestions of the Presse of Paris of the 15 th , and states that the policy of the
Sardinan government has been neither provocative nor revolutionary , but always natioual andliberal . The King of Naples has undergone an operation on tbejthigh , but the fever still continues . The state of the king ' s health becomes alarming ; for a few clays be improved , but on A \ ednesday lie became worse . To lessen the pain he has recource to opiates . In the meantime everything stands still . The hereditary prince takes no part in affairs . The police exercise the utmost rigour towards all ivho speak of the king ' s illness . A gentleman in the cafe' under the Palazzo Angri , in the Toledo , ventured to express his regret at the silence of tho official journals on the subject . On his way out he was arrested , On the 8 th